Are you preparing to take the gospel to the nations?You’ve said “yes” to God’s call to go, and now you will pack up your things and step into the unknown of a new location, people, and culture. The following years will likely include great joy, frustration, homesickness, difficulty, and excitement. In this book, ten men who have served in missions in various ways share what they wish they had known before they began.This book is a handbook for entering the mission field, incl...

Is the American evangelical house in order? Or is it in need of a remodel? Or—even worse—should we sell the house altogether and look for another home?In Hope for American Evangelicals, professor and former missionary Matthew Bennett inspects the American evangelical home. Perhaps, like him, you love evangelical doctrine, love the community in which you’ve been spiritually nurtured, and want to see it again become a thriving, hospitable environment for guests. But perhaps,...

Learn how to create sophisticated and reliable Logic Apps with improved UX Key Features • Become an Azure Master and create data flows within a matter of minutes • Perform transfers using Logic Apps with prompt results • Create powerful Logic Apps by enhancing your systems to improve user experience Book Description Logic Apps are a visual flowchart-like representation of common programming actions, and are a flexible way to create logic without writing a single line of code. Enterprise In...

How is your workforce doing today?Are they functioning at their best, or are they burned out?The ability to manage and recover from stress is crucial for resiliency and cognitive, medical, mental, and social health. Burnout is the enemy of productivity, creativity, and overall business success. Until recently, it was difficult for leaders to get reliable data on people's ability to perform at their best and understand levels of burnout within the business. The Heart(beat) o...

How do you quantify the mental, physical, social, and cognitive health of people and organizations?Heart rate variability or HRV is the answer. HRV is a biometric that measures the differences in successive heartbeats. While simple, HRV provides an incredible amount of information on the health of our autonomic nervous system and brain.In recent years, HRV variability monitors have become smaller and very affordable. A simple smartphone application takes the data from the m...

A much anticipated new addition to the very popular and practical book series that answers real questions on key topics in contemporary ChristianityIslam is one of the most significant forces shaping the world today, but most Christians are confused about its key beliefs and practices. Many wonder about the apparent similarities and obvious differences between Christianity and Islam, and want to reach out to Muslim friends or neighbors with the gospel but don't know where t...

"The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication" by George Matthews Bennett is a compelling exploration of the traditional practice of bone-setting, a form of manual therapy that has been used for centuries. Bennett, drawing from his extensive experience, provides insights into the techniques and philosophies that underpin this ancient art. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the human body and the skill required to manipulate bones and joints effectively, advocating f...

Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology presents a comprehensive review of some of the salient philosophical, cultural, social, and clinical ingredients that have gone into contemporary visions of human personality development and psychotherapy and proposes a “unified field” theory of mental representation which puts psychoanalytic, analytic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives in a mutually integrative framework.The model proposed by Matthew Bennett, called Integrat...

In "The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication," George Matthews Bennett skillfully weaves together personal testimony and medical insight, illuminating the oft-overlooked practice of bone-setting as a vital form of healing. With an eloquent literary style that balances clinical detail with evocative narrative, Bennett establishes a compelling argument for the legitimacy and necessity of traditional bone-setting within the wider medical community. His exploration of physical...

One of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century, which rocked the field of archaeology and fundamentally shifted our collective knowledge of human occupation in the Americas.On a warm winter day in 2005, while mending fences in the backcountry of White Sands National Park, David F. Bustos, the park’s biologist turned resource-program manager, spotted his first Ice Age human footprint. He initially ignored it as a print made from a modern co...

On the 15th of May 1832, the island of Porto Santo, in latitude 35° 5′ north, longitude 16° 5′ west, was seen bearing south-west, half-south, at the distance of forty miles from the ship “Brothers,” Captain Towns, bound to New South Wales, eleven days having elapsed since leaving Plymouth, from whence we had taken our departure. The appearance of the island, when we had reached to within seven or eight miles of it, was generally barren, varied by an occasional verdant patch scattered over ...

This book presents several metascientific strategies and explains how they can be used to improve research about the autism spectrum. It begins with an introduction to the field of metascience and the benefits that it brings to academic disciplines and society. It then outlines recommendations that researchers can adopt so that they do not incorporate specious autism research from predatory publishers into their research activities. An introduction to reproducibility and strategies that ca...